This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. Page 9.--It is pleasing to record among the survivors of the Canterbury Congress, Mr. Alfred White, Mr. William Chaffers, and Mr. Edward Solly. Although Mr. White worked for the Winchester Congress, he was prevented, by a domestic affliction, from being present. Page 24.--Mr. Stephen Tucker, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. Page 9.--It is pleasing to record among the survivors of the Canterbury Congress, Mr. Alfred White, Mr. William Chaffers, and Mr. Edward Solly. Although Mr. White worked for the Winchester Congress, he was prevented, by a domestic affliction, from being present. Page 24.--Mr. Stephen Tucker, Somerset Herald (Mr. Planche's successor), contributes the following particulars relating to the Rev. S. Isaacson, his godfather: --"Mr. Isaacson was born on the 17th of February 1798, at The Oaks, at Cowling in Suffolk, being the son of Robert Isaacson, of that place, by his second marriage, with his cousin, a daughter of the Rev. John Isaacson, Rector of Lidgate. "He was educated at Norwich, by the celebrated Dr. Valpy; and admitted a Pensioner at Christ College, Cambridge, on the 8th of April 1816. Having graduated in 1820, after a not undistinguished academical career, he took Holy Orders, with the degree of M.A., and went to the West Indies. There, in Demerara, he became Rector of St. Paul's; and, in 1826, married Anna Maria Miller, youngest daughter of General Killikelly, the ceremony of his marriage being noted as the first performed by a Protestant Bishop in that region. "Mr. Isaacson returned to England in 1832, and was appointed Lecturer at St. Margaret's, Lothbury, in the City of London, from the parishioners of which, on his retirement, he received a handsome testimonial. Failing in his candidature for the Preachership of the Magdalen Hospital, he accepted, in 1834, the sole charge of the Vicarage of Dorking; and it was under his auspices that the ruined old church, too far gone, even for the restoration of those days, was replaced by that of which the first stone was laid by the late Bishop Sumuer on the 28th of October 1835....
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